I don't know if this site is truly "balanced," but I thought it listed some good points with regard to national healthcare.  As you'll see, the list of cons is quite longer than the list of pros.

www.balancedpolitics.org/universal_health_care.htm

I agree with you 100%, and honestly what you just wrote is better than any speech I heard on TV the last four weeks.  Honestly, that was awesome.  Thank You. 

Actaully, the Americans that do have healthcare would see signifigant reductions in their premiums. By the way 46 million Americans , including 8 million children, do not have healthcare. I guess most Republicans don't feel it should bet their problem. Just because you are a Republican, does not mean you shouldn't be socially conscious. Why can't people look at issues from a human perspective, regardless of any political affiliation?

Anyway, instead of me posting replies to each of your comments. Click on this link, below and see what he stands for, yourself. You will have your "why's: answerred.

http://www.barackobama.com/issues/

That already exists in China.  I am sure you will be happy with your communist buddies there.

Plenty of times. And we're not talking a few weeks here, anyway. My friend used to live in Canada. Both her parents are doctors. They had to move here to actually make good money from it, and she said people had to wait months to see a doctor there.

Plenty of times. And we're not talking a few weeks here, anyway. My friend used to live in Canada. Both her parents are doctors. They had to move here to actually make good money from it, and she said people had to wait months to see a doctor there.

I want to switch to your doctor then.....seriously.   I call and if I am lucky I can get in the next month.  Thank God for Urgent Care. 

If your MD will not see you right away when you are ill, then you need to find another one. We have never had an MD that would not tell us to come right in if we called with the flu, nausea, back thrown out , etc.  The five GPs that we have had over the years have always said come on in and we will work you in somehow. You definitely need to shop around for a new doc.

Regarding socialized health care - A few years ago an elderly relative from the UK , who was suffering from cancer, was visiting us in NJ. he suffered a setback while in the US, and had to be hospitalized. After a few days he was able to leave the hospital and continue his last vacation. He could not stop praising his medical care in the US as compared to the socialized system in the UK. A semi-private room rather than an open ward with a couple of dozen beds about two feet apart from each other. Professional nurses rather than poorly trained third world immigrants who had a problem with the language and acted as if you were intruding on their social life if you asked them for aid. MDs who could prescribe procedures and meds without getting a government bureaucrat's approval. After he died, his wife told us that toward the end his doc said that he should have an oxygen set up at home. He was put on the government's waiting list for the equipment. He died before getting it. Socialized medicine? No thanks!